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Meet the Secret Gamers

  • 17-11-2009 10:49pm
    #1
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭


    So it's not just me then.
    Last weekend was just like Christmas Eve for Will Statton. He could hardly sleep he was so excited. He spent much of Sunday evening picking up his old toys, playing with them for a bit, and then discarding them. There was no excitement in them.

    He just couldn’t wait until midnight on Monday when Santa — in the form of his local HMV store — opened early and he could lay his hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the most eagerly anticipated new video game for years.

    Will was in the queue almost an hour early and feeling, he said later, “like Charlie waiting outside the chocolate factory”. As soon as the shrink-wrapped package was in his hand he ran home and sat up long into the night machine-gunning his alarmingly life-like enemies.

    The following day, tired but happy, he feigned sickness to get out of his commitments despite the chaos that would inevitably follow. After all, if the judge doesn’t show up, it’s rather tricky to get a trial to run smoothly.

    Will (not his real name, for obvious reasons) is 48 years old and a district judge at a county court in England. He worked as a barrister for almost 15 years before he was appointed, has a wife and two kids and a hefty mortgage.

    He is also a hardcore computer gamer, spending hundreds of pounds a year on new titles. It is people like Will who are propelling the gaming business to the top of the world entertainment league . . .
    http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article6917329.ece


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